[cartoonistx]

My father was an Army Ranger and already back from Europe by late July of '45 and in training for the invasion of Japan. He told me that they were told the operation was to be over 5 times the size of D-Day with estimated first day causulties above 100,000 men! When the news of the Bomb came his whole company broke training and got stinkin' drunk!

[HockeyPop]

In that case you're father and his buds owe my cousin a beer. Oppenheimer gave him sole responsibility for one component of the bomb [detonators]. My cousin was twenty one years old at the time.

[bandleader]

The man who was to become my father had(finally)been drafted in March,1945.His designation was I.R(infantry replacement).He was(because of the atom bombs)able to marry the young woman who would become my mother at Camp Croft,Spartanburg,S.C.on Oct. 10th,1945!